Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...managed to pass. As the Republican revolution gets routinized as politics as usual, the story is all too familiar by now. House Commerce Chair Bliley was in the pocket of long-distance carriers like AT&T, and he looked to aid them by permitting only the Baby Bells to enter long-distance markets after long-distance carriers got a chance to establish themselves locally...
Hussein Kamel: We concluded that the possibility was remote. All the Iraqis were sure that no armies would enter the city. War in the cities is very different from war outside. Firing missiles from a distance and aerial bombardment usually result in fewer casualties for the attackers. But the minute you enter a city, a schoolchild 12 years old becomes a fighter. Or even a 70-year...
Nevertheless, I do not unequivocally rule out a political future. If I ever do decide to enter politics, it will not be because of high popularity ratings in the polls. I am fully aware that in taking stands on issues, I would quickly alienate one interest group or another and burn off much popularity. And I would certainly not run simply because I saw myself as the "Great Black Hope," providing a role model for African Americans or a symbol to whites of racism overcome. I would enter only because I had a vision for this country. I would enter...
Powell: If I do enter electoral politics in whatever form, I would try to make it as open a candidacy and as large a tent as the Republicans are fond of saying they have...
Powell: It was not intended to be a political memoir sculpted like a diplomatic communique. I know that I will have to, if I enter public life, come down on those issues. But I haven't declared myself a candidate. I will have to learn, but it doesn't mean I have to rush through it right now and leap down an elevator shaft. What you're asking me to do is put myself up on Capitol Hill and say exactly whether I'm for the Clinton version of welfare reform or the Bob Dole version of welfare reform...